McManus/1991, 81: `Thus, to take an obvious example, the fact that the formula word KOI is always written with the first forfid whether on the Dingle Peninsula (156) [this stone], in Cork (120), Kildare (22) or Wicklow (48) points to the existence of a conventionalized practice which one would associate with a corporate body of practicioners or professional learned men.'

Legibility:

someMacalister/1945, 153: `...rather worn....The vowels of KOI are so cramped and faint that it is difficult to avoid mistaking the word for -KI, appended to the name IARI. But KOI is certainly correct'.

Gippert/Web, 156: `While the I forfed is still quite clear, the vowel notches that were read on the `top' of the stone by others are hardly recognizable at all'.